Delmore Schwartz Poems (80 Poems)
Father And Son (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Father: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Spontaneous as rain, and they compel Explicitness, embarrassed eyes– Son: Father, you’re not Polonius, you’re reticent, But sure. I can already tell The unction and falsetto of the sentiment Which gratifies the facile … Continue reading
Narcissus (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is a capital Like Rome, ruined and eternal, Marked by the monuments which no one Now remembers. For the mind, like … Continue reading
Baudelaire (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having no relation to my affairs. Dear Mother, is any time left to us In which to be happy? My debts … Continue reading
The True-Blue American (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American, For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he must Think about everything; because that’s all there is to think about, Knowing immediately the intimacy of truth and comedy, … Continue reading
A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased, (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shoreOr near the bank of a woodland lakeTwenty-eight girls and all of them comelyWorthy of Mack Sennett’s camera and Florenz Ziegfield’sFoolish Follies. They splashed and swam with the wondrous unconsciousnessOf their youth and … Continue reading
The Foggy, Foggy Blue (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
When I was a young man, I loved to write poems And I called a spade a spade And the only only thing that made me sing Was to lift the masks … Continue reading
Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Let me not, ever, to the marriage in CanaOf Galilee admit the slightest sentimentOf doubt about the astonishing and sustaining mannaOf chance and choice to throw a shadow’s elementOf disbelief in truth — Love is not loveNor is the love … Continue reading
Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers. Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child, Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog, The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils, Then barked and wailed; the boy who pinched his sister, The little girl … Continue reading
Philology Recapitulate (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, o Holy bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or to inconceivable fulfillment slowly: And still I follow you, awkward as that dandy of ontology … Continue reading
Now He Knows All There Is To Know. Now He Is Acquainted With The Day And Night (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
(Robert Frost, 1875-1963) Whose wood this is I think I know:He made it sacred long ago:He will expect me, far or nearTo watch that wood immense with snow. That famous horse must feel great fearNow that his noble rider’s no … Continue reading
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